I liked the video. It was pretty interesting and down to earth. I like how its edited, those short commercials/images/gameplay bits are set up to speak for themselves instead of her going over them and explaining them, which keeps a clear message.

It was a wise decision not to allow comments nor ratings on the video, the message would be drowned in the mass of the not-so respectful internet dwellers.

How many videos she is expected to release?

I liked the video. It was pretty interesting and down to earth. I like how its edited, those short commercials/images/gameplay bits are set up to speak for themselves instead of her going over them and explaining them, which keeps a clear message.

It was a wise decision not to allow comments nor ratings on the video, the message would be drowned in the mass of the not-so respectful internet dwellers.

How many videos she is expected to release?

I kinda liked the video. The amount of work and research she put into it is noteworthy and I would rather tend to agree it's worth some $. While she makes some good points, starting with feministic opening + a story about degrading a female character from protagonist to DID sets a judgemental mood for the rest of the video, which I personally didn't like. If the same was done without a "women are not equals here and it's not cool" sign, but for instance a smirk of "how cliche can you get in your pursue of manhood, boys?" the whole video would get some nice edge. Show that she's actually more than a feminist researcher and more of a person that can give some new light to the topic. Well, at least she's not too aggressive with her feministic judgements.

My personal living expenses are around $2000/month,

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Well I'm off to go read tvtropes.com

I think when a lot of feminists got up in arms over the new Tomb Raider they really hurt an otherwise credible argument in my mind. When developers took active steps to show a strong female lead with depth that took steps toward being less of a sexual object and it was met with, "THIS IS EVEN MORE SEXIST!" I stopped listening.

If she really cared she basically could have done this with little or no funding.

You realise that applies to everything, right?

If you really care about games you can make one yourself. Why pay developers?

If you really care about music you wouldn't expect to be paid for people downloading your album. You should be happy just to have it heard.

Fresh water and sanitation is important, so people should gladly treat the water and install sewers for you and enjoy the pride of a job well done and countless lives saved.

Effort takes time, and time spent incurs costs. The fact that some people either have enough free time or enough free money to do cool stuff on the side shouldn't fool us into thinking that everything worthwhile should be done for free. If you want to see a better world, reward the people who try to bring it about.

I don't know why people are caring so much about how much money she made or anything beside the content of the video.

She touches a topic that is out there: women want a different role on the media.

I will use Milcho post to reply to some points

Criticism of her criticism:
- Is she saying that men caring about women and wanting to rescue women is bad? That's what the first half of the video sounds like. I think there's nothing wrong with the plot of a man wanting to rescue a woman, and instead, what her critique should have targeted is that there's few instances where a woman fights to save a man she cares about. It doesn't seem to me that this is the argument she's making (or at least it's not made that clear to me). Note that there are examples of women fighting for what they care about, albeit fewer, in both reality and fiction. Off the top of my head, Joan of Arc, and Mulan.

She makes very clear at the end of the video that she loves the Mario series and Zelda and doesn't criticize the plot. She says that she hopes Peach, Zelda and other female characters are made protagonists in the next games.

She also explains what her next video will be about: what the current developers are doing around this theme and which games are trying to flip the coin.

Note that the movie industry is also flipping the coin a bit slowly right now. Animations are starting to present female protagonists: Brave

Criticism for funding:
- You know, somepeople produce videos like this without having to resort to a kickstarter. Look at some people like the AVGN or Nostalgia Critic (two I'm most familiar with). They didn't have tons of initial funding, and they weren't even doing it for a cause, they were just doing it for fun. If she really cared she basically could have done this with little or no funding.
In a very ironic way, she becomes her own damsel in (financial) distress, unable to do what other people have done, without the support of an outside (funding) source.

What she intends to do is something like a documentary. This fits really well a kickstarter campaign. I dont know about those other people you cited, but the amount of money she asked for is not a ton (6k only).

- Ok, I know its not really mainstream game (but agian RESEARCH!) - when she says "Zelda has never been the star of her own adventure ... in the core series" - ok, some might argue on technicalities here, but google Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon, where Zelda is on her own quest to kill Ganon. Yes, it's generally considered a not-so-good game, and it has its Link-as-the-Hero counterpart, but she doesn't mention it. The two reasons why she doesn't mention it are the same as above for Peach and Paper Mario. Either she's selectivly picking her arguments, or she hasn't done her research (both are bad in my view)

I agree with you here. She may not cite some games so that she can make her point more clear. Or maybe on edition it was cut off.

Still, the conclusion of the video was valid imo. Games with the Damsel in Distress plot are ok, but wouldn't hurt to have a big production on a female protagonist.

You realise that applies to everything, right?

All the examples you gave as counter arguments are talking about different things: (also just because it can apply to almost everything, doesn't make the argument less valid....)

1. I didn't say she couldn't support other videos... in fact this argument isn't even countering what I said.

2. Yeah, in fact, if you really cared about music, you would be happy to have your music heard. Lots of spare-time musicians do this. If you're doing something as a spare time project (which is what I'm talking about in my argument), you should have no problem about this. If you're doing something as a full-time job, then it's impossible for you to live without food, place to live etc. My point was that I have indeed seen people who've made similar videos in their spare time as a hobby for free. And they've done it simply because they like doing that sort of thing. As an example, I'm still trying to make a video game of my own. While I have no funding, I don't plan on asking for funding at all, and I'm still trying despite that, mostly because I want to show others (including potential employers, yes) what I can do.

3. Fresh water and sanitation.. come on, that's not even close. First you're talking about things of vital importance, as opposed to hobby project. Second you're talking about full time job again. Third, you're talking about other people doing things for you for free, as opposed to you doing something for yourself (or for a cause) for free. And I'm pretty sure that people would do their best to take care of their water/sanitation if there wasn't already a tax-supported system (read: paid by you) that did this. Or at least they would try to take care of this to the best of your abilities.

A more valid comparison is saying something like: Would MLK Jr. have not tried to campaign for racial equality if he didn't have financial backing?

Sure, I agree that you can care about a subject and still want monetary support. But in this case I was saying that you actually CAN do a video like this (as I cited) without any funding. So was she underestimating her abilities? Was she using this video as a reason to get money? I don't know. I'm just saying it can be done without money.

Still, the conclusion of the video was valid imo. Games with the Damsel in Distress plot are ok, but wouldn't hurt to have a big production on a female protagonist.

Indeed, and if you read my whole response (I'm assuming you did, but I wanted to point this out) I also agree with the conclusion and what you said there.

I think her message is a little biased. I do believe there are still more male lead games than female, but I don't know that is actually a problem. Things don't have to be 50/50 for everything. There are some things more geared towards men and there are other that are geared more towards women.

I can think of several games in which a female character had a strong role and she was not objectified. Uncharted always had a strong female character. While she was not playable, she was instrumental in his quest and saved him just as many times as he saved her. Heavenly Sword had a playable female character and I thought it was a great game. Final Fantasy series typically has female characters that are playable though sometimes they do need to be rescued. Most MMO's let you choose between being a female or a male character. Mrs. Pacman was also a playable character. The game industry and the movie industry both have lots of strong female characters some dating back decades ago. Aliens always had a strong female character. Even more so, they made the males look helpless compared to her. What about all of the Resident Evil franchise in both movies and games. Resident evil 5 had a female playable character (I can't speak on the rest because I haven't played them) and all of the movies have a female lead that kicks butt.

She basically picks 2 franchises that maintain the same formula throughout. Who can blame them though. It is successful and why mess with success. I didn't watch the whole video so maybe she did it later, but I would like to see statistics on this. How many games have a strong female character. How many women play games versus men. What kind of profits did female games have on average versus male games. In general, people get what people want. As more people want strong female characters and those games are successful, more games will be made that way.